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Caching issue? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm loading https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] and the username display in the top right is showing other people's usernames, not mine. It showed one, and I refreshed, and now it's showing another. Here's what is showing right now for me:

Here is what I see right now

Edit to add just to show that it's changing: Another one

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I notice that a few days ago. However it only happened one time then I refreshed and it was back to me.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine's consistently either: showing a random person's username, or showing "Login / Sign Up". I haven't gotten that specific URL to show my username since I posted this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very interesting. Have you tried in incognito mode?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Good idea. I gave that a go, and yeah, I'm actually getting random usernames even in incognito.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Could be a caching issue in your browser. If you hold shift and click refresh if it happens again it might clear it up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

That doesn't make sense. If it was my browser cache it should (a) show my username, and (b) show the same username every time. I did do forced refreshes (without browser cache), as well as used an incognito window (where the same exact behavior happened).